ON THE ETHNOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA, 575 
peace. Snii’ya pays no attention whatever to her, but continues to 
whistle and dance more vigorously than ever. It was a rain-song that he 
was whistling called élazmiu/gtcin.' ‘tlaz-pe-e-e-e-e-e-e-e'-iiq-tein,’ ‘tlaz-pe- 
e-e-e-e-e-e-e'-iiq-tcin,’ tlaz-pe-e-e-e-e-e-e-e'-iiq-tcin,’ sang Snii’ya, and pre- 
sently the rain began to fall gently. But as the song continued and Sni’ya 
danced faster and faster it fell harder and harder until it descended in 
sheets, no such rain ever having been seen before. In a short time the 
creek near the house began to rise and roll the rock about with a 
thunderous noise. Soon the water overflows and spreads itself every- 
where. It enters the keekwilee-house, and soon Snii’ya is swimming 
about and beating time to his song with his tail on the water. The 
Frog’s bed begins to get wet : she gets up and raises it higher. In a little 
while the water is up to it again. Asecond time she raises it. But now 
Sni/ya knocks a hole in the wall with his tail, and the flood pours in upon 
them. Sni’ya now swims home across the river. The day now begins to 
break. He gets into his canoe and paddles merrily away, still whistling 
the Rain Song. In the meantime the Frog is floating about on her bed- 
board, and is carried to the mouth of the creek, calling aloud for help. 
She presently perceives Sni’ya paddling by in his canoe, and calls out to 
him to come and save her, telling him she will take him for husband. 
To all her entreaties Snii’ya replies, ‘What do you want?’ and whistles 
away. The Frog implores him to bring his canoe over and save her. 
‘Ob, come and take me into your canoe and I will be your wife,’ cried 
she. Sni’ya answers back, ‘Use your own stomach fora boat. I'll not 
trouble myself about you.’ The Frog still continues to beseech him to 
deliver her, calling him by all the endearing terms she can utter. The 
eddies whirl her about and greatly alarm her. Sni’/ya now begins to 
mock her. ‘Oh, you could not be my wife. You surely could not marry 
a round-headed, big-bellied, short-legged, flat-tailed creature like me,’ 
said he, repeating the ill names she had so disdainfully called him by a 
little time before. The current soon carries her past him out into the 
great Fraser, down which she floats till she comes to a spot about four or 
five miles above Yale called Ni’ksakoum. Thus did Sni’ya revenge 
himself upon the disdainful Frog for refusing to accept him as her 
husband. 
Story of Snikia’p, Qai'non, Tzala’s, and Spate.? 
Once upon a time Snikia’p, Qai/non, Tzala’s, and Spate lived in the 
same locality, each in his own keekwilee-house. Snikia’p being one day 
without any food in his house, bethought him that it would be a good 
time to pay a neighbourly visit to the house of Qai’non. On reaching 
Qai'non’s keekwilee-house he looked down the smoke-hole and accosted 
him. Qai’non replied in a friendly manner, and bade his visitor come in. 
Snikia’p clambered down. Said he, as he took a seat near the fire, ‘I 
was feeling very lonesome this morning, and thought I should like to 
come over and have a neighbourly chat with you.’ ‘I am truly delighted 
) It will be seen that I have spelt this term first with an‘m’ and afterwards in 
the song with a‘p.’ Ihave done this purposely. In the title my informant dis- 
tinctly uttered the ‘m,’ but in repeating the word in the song he as distinctly changed 
itintoa‘p. Thisis an interesting instance of the interchange of these two letters 
in the mouth of the same person. With the N’tlaka’‘pamugQ ‘p’ frequently takes the 
_place of the ‘m’ seen in the other divisions of the Salish. 
? Snikia’p = Coyote ; Qai/non= Magpie; Tzala's= Diver; Spatc=Black Bear. 
